I was deployed to Iraq during the end of the war from Aug 2010 - 11 and it was obvious that there was a distinct difference between American media portrayal of the draw down and what actually was happening. There was no infrastructure, unemployment was at 75% of adults, rubble and trash were everywhere. The interpreter I worked with had running water for two hours a day and had to store water in reservoirs and electricity for a hour a week in downtown Baghdad in 120. I never supported the Iraq War but being there it felt that we were biding time until the Sunni, Shiite, and Kurds had a civil war after the US left. The US destroyed a country for whatever reason Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld know and everything that happened after is just completely heartbreaking.
